The upcoming negotiation of the Summary for Policy Makers of the sixth Global Environment Outlook, will be held at the United Nations Office at Nairobi from 21-24 January 2019. This session will allow countries to negotiate and adopt the Summary, as mandated by the first session of the UN Environment Assembly.
Nominated Member States negotiators and authors of the main sixth Global Environment Outlook report will be present at the negotiation to support the negotiations by identifying wording in the Summary that may not be consistent with the main report.
The main objectives of the meeting are to review the text of the draft Summary for Policymakers, adapt the text to a policymaker audience and adopt the revised text and forward the final Summary for Policymakers to the fourth UN Environment Assembly for possible adoption.
The meeting structure will include co-chairs, vice-chairs and rapporteur who will be elected at the start of the meeting. The work on adapting the text will be performed in plenary with all Member State representatives present with simultaneous interpretation being provided during the main negotiation sessions. Evening sessions may be needed to ensure the work on adapting the text is completed within the 4 days and breakout rooms will be provided for the regional groupings to plan for each daily session. Adoption of the revised document is planned for the last session of the meeting.
